Abolhassan Banisadr

Abolhassan Banisadr (born 22 March 1933) was President of Iran from 1980 to 1981, under supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Biography
Abolhassan Banisadr was born in Hamedan in 1933, and studied finance and economics at the University of Paris. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Banisadr was appointed Minister of Finance by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom he met at his father's funeral. He became President of  Iran in 1980, and during his term as President, Iran fought Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. Banisadr was impeached in 1981 due to his fighting with clerics in the country in an impeachment fixed by Khomeini himself.